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January 8, 2025
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Automate Vercel Deployments with MCP Orchestration

Deploy to Vercel automatically with GitHub integration, environment variables, and CI/CD - all through natural language commands.

Why Automate Vercel Deployments?

Manual deployments are error-prone and time-consuming. Forgetting environment variables, deploying the wrong branch, or misconfiguring build settings costs hours of debugging. Nexus automates the entire workflow.

What Nexus Automates

Git Operations

  • • Fetch latest commits
  • • Merge branches
  • • Tag releases
  • • Push changes

Vercel Deployments

  • • Environment variables
  • • Build configuration
  • • Domain management
  • • Preview/Production

Setup Guide

1. Prerequisites

  • Nexus account with API token
  • Vercel account
  • GitHub repository with your app
  • Vercel project connected to GitHub

2. Add Vercel Credentials to Nexus

Get your Vercel token from vercel.com/account/tokens and add it to Nexus Dashboard.

3. Configure GitHub Integration

Add your GitHub Personal Access Token to Nexus credentials for repository access.

Deployment Commands

Simple Production Deploy

"Deploy my app to Vercel production using the main branch"

Nexus fetches latest commits, builds the project, and deploys to production.

Deploy with Environment Variables

"Deploy to Vercel staging with NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL=https://api-staging.example.com and DATABASE_URL from Supabase"

Nexus sets environment variables and deploys to staging environment.

Full CI/CD Pipeline

"Create a new Git tag v1.2.0, deploy to Vercel staging, run tests, then promote to production if passing"

Complete release workflow with version tagging and automated testing.

Real-World Example

Here's a complete deployment workflow executed by Nexus:

→ Fetching latest commits from main branch...

✓ Latest commit: abc1234 "Add new feature"

→ Setting environment variables...

✓ NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL configured

✓ DATABASE_URL configured

→ Deploying to Vercel production...

✓ Build completed in 45s

✓ Deployment complete

🚀 Live at: https://your-app.vercel.app

Advanced Features

Multi-Environment Deployments

Deploy to staging, preview, and production environments with different configurations:

"Deploy feature-auth branch to preview environment with ENABLE_AUTH=true"

Rollback Support

Quickly rollback to previous deployments:

"Rollback Vercel production to the deployment from 2 hours ago"

Custom Domain Management

Add and configure custom domains:

"Add custom domain app.example.com to my Vercel project and configure SSL"

Best Practices

  • Always test in staging before deploying to production
  • Use environment variables instead of hardcoded values
  • Tag releases for easy rollback
  • Monitor deployment logs for errors

Troubleshooting

Issue: Build failures

→ Check build logs in Nexus response, verify environment variables are correct

Issue: Deployment stuck

→ Verify Vercel token has correct permissions, check Vercel dashboard for issues

Conclusion

Nexus transforms Vercel deployments from manual, error-prone processes into automated, reliable workflows. Deploy with confidence using natural language commands.

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